Amy Pope in Ukraine: IOM Director General signs cooperation agreements on economic recovery and migration management
Kyiv • UNN
Amy Pope, Director-General of the International Organization for Migration, visited Ukraine and signed cooperation agreements with the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide assistance to internally displaced persons, support economic recovery, and strengthen migration and border management.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has welcomed the Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Amy Pope, who is on a several-day visit to Ukraine. The official website of the President of Ukraine reported on the course of their meeting , UNN reported.
We discussed the organization's key activities in Ukraine: helping internally displaced persons, facilitating their employment, and supporting their psychological health. I invited her to join the work on creating and equipping shelters in schools to ensure that children in our communities can study safely. I am grateful to Amy Pope for this visit. I thank the organization for helping Ukrainian families.
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The Head of State thanked the Director-General for the visit that she started with Mykolaiv and Odesa. The President particularly noted IOM's assistance to the communities affected by the undermining of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station dam by Russian occupants, the reconstruction of housing for internally displaced persons and the assistance in the arrangement of "Points of Unbreakability" in different regions of Ukraine.
Zelenskyy also invited the International Organization for Migration to join the construction and arrangement of shelters in schools to enable children to study safely.
After the conversation with Zelenskyy, IOM Director General Amy Pope signed two agreements: on cooperation between the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and the International Organization for Migration, and on cooperation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and IOM.
The cooperation agreement with the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy provides for cooperation in improving policies and legislation for the economic adaptation and recovery of micro and small businesses displaced or affected by the war. A special emphasis is placed on businesses run by IDPs and veterans.
The document with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine provides for the expansion of bilateral cooperation to restore the critical and social infrastructure of our country, strengthen data protection, cybersecurity and digitalization of migration and border management.
